[Feature Request] Keywords for symbol operators

[Dom DiSc]

On Sunday, 25 February 2024 at 23:40:19 UTC, Danilo wrote:

> Personally I read about it in C++20/23 books round about 2 
> years ago for updating my C++98 knowledge, and then just 
> started using it. Takes 1-2 days for getting used to it. ;)

Adding new ways to do the same is a bad idea.
The problem is not the time to get used to it, this can be 
negligible small.
The problem is that not *everybody* is going to use the new way.
So you need to get used to *both* ways - which creates mental 
load.
And even worse: you can mix them and so generating differences in 
the code where there are none. By this way you hide were the 
important differences are. And that will happen, even if you 
don't intend to do it.

If you want to create a new language (in this case: using english 
instead of math symbols), stick to it and don't mix it with the 
old language.

This of course doesn't apply if you have a new concept not 
available in a language. Then using a term from another language 
that better describe it is ok - that's the way languages evolve. 
But simply adding a new word for the same thing is only useful if 
you explicitly don't want everybody to understand you. E.g. every 
new generation invents new words for the same concepts, just to 
be not understood by their parents. Or some "experts" invent a 
lot of special terms to not be understood by "ordinary" people.

So if you want to create some elite kind of D, do it on your own 
fork and don't call it D anymore.